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    JavaScript animation engine

    frontend
    animation
    anime
    canvas
    css
    javascript
    JavaScript
    MIT
    72.3K stars
    4.9K forks
    72.3K GitHub watchers
    Updated 8/19/2026
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    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Anime.js is a lightweight, fast JavaScript animation engine supporting CSS, SVG, DOM attributes, and JavaScript objects.
    • Key features include a simple API, support for staggered animations, easing functions, and looping with alternate directions.
    • The library is open-source under MIT license, actively maintained since 2016 with recent updates in 2025.
    • With over 63,000 stars and 4,200 forks on GitHub, Anime.js is highly popular and widely adopted in the web development community.
    • Ideal for developers needing versatile, performant animations in web projects involving CSS, SVG, and canvas elements.

    About anime

    Anime.js

    Anime.js V4 logo animation

    Anime.js is a fast, multipurpose and lightweight JavaScript animation library with a simple, yet powerful API.
    It works with CSS properties, SVG, DOM attributes and JavaScript Objects.

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    Sponsors

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    Usage

    Anime.js V4 works by importing ES modules like so:

    import {
  animate,
  stagger,
} from 'animejs';

animate('.square', {
  x: 320,
  rotate: { from: -180 },
  duration: 1250,
  delay: stagger(65, { from: 'center' }),
  ease: 'inOutQuint',
  loop: true,
  alternate: true
});
    		Anime.js code example

    V4 Documentation

    The full documentation is available here.

    V3 Migration guide

    You can find the v3 to v4 migration guide here.

    NPM development scripts

    First, run npm i to install all the necessary packages. Then, execute the following scripts with npm run <script>.

    scriptaction
    devWatch any changes in src/ and compiles the esm version to lib/anime.esm.js
    dev-typesSame as dev, but also run TypeScript and generate the types/index.d.ts file
    buildGenerate types definition and compiles ESM / UMD / IIFE versions to lib/
    test-browserStart a local server and start all browser related tests
    test-nodeStart all Node related tests
    open-examplesStart a local server to browse the examples locally

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